Crime, Gender, and Sexuality in Criminal ProsecutionsLouis A. Knafla Knafla and his contributors explore the common problems and issues that emerge from the study of class and gender in criminal prosecutions, ranging from late medieval Europe to the early 20th century. The chapters demonstrate that conceptions of crime and criminal behavior are influenced decisively by the roles of class, gender, and later race as societies evolve in search of continuity and conformity. |
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... threat thereof.19 There were few legal difficulties with the first two of these requirements . Intent could be established by any of a variety of indicators , showing that the accused desired to permanently de- prive another of his ...
... threat of prosecution was held to be insufficient to in- duce fear of a capital kind . As noted earlier , an 1805 decision disallowed this kind of threat as a basis for misdemeanor prosecutions for extortion and therefore limited the ...
... threat to prosecute for an unnatural crime was considered to be fully the equivalent to standard forms of threat . Staples was convicted and hanged.45 Hickman's conviction , obtained in 1784 and upheld by the Judges , cleared up any ...
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Female Criminality and Subversion in Early Modern Ireland | 19 |
The Roles of Humanism Protestantism | 33 |
Blackmail as a Crime of Sexual Indiscretion in Eighteenth | 61 |
Copyright | |
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